STILL HERE

Just to let you know I'm still kicking and will post soon, sorry it's been a hectic week with work and such.

WEEKLY WEIGH IN

Weighed in today with a mixture of trepidation and enthusiasm.

Trepidation, to having a not so good weekend of eating (although it was better than last weekend) and enthusiasm because I wanted to see the numbers under 120kg AGAIN !!

The weight loss fairy decided I hadn't been good enough to reward me - I recorded
120kg - it took her a few seconds to make up her mind as the scales were flashing between 119.8 and 120 but finally decided on the latter - DANG!

Oh well, it is a step in the right direction and I did not have a perfect week so overall I'm happy with the loss as it in my mini goal of .500 grams a week.Still not able to exercise my hip has flared up again and I'm going to make an appointment to see the Dr next week as it's keeping me awake now at night aching, so not good.

I'm also thinking of dropping my calories to 1200 per day due to the no exercise factor, might give it a go next week. Hope everyone has a great week.

DAY OUT

As previously mentioned today hubby and I spent the day with Chris (Diet Coke Rocks) Stew and their two little cuties Brylee and Griffin. We caught the ferry across our glorious harbour to the zoo.Chris and Stew are really lovely people and we enjoyed our day out, I hope they did as well. Chris is exactly like her blog - full of fun and enthusiasm. After the zoo we headed to a local market which is HUGE to say at the least - I think Chris will do a return trip on Sunday.
WOOOHOOO! Ive meet my first international blogger.





The beautiful Sydney Harbour going to the Zoo




The new Indian Elephants enclosure taken from the Skyway gondola





Me in the enclosure HA HA HA





The view we had all day









Once home I flaked like this meerkat - happy and contented.

THANKS GOD IT FRIDAY

I've been good with the food these last couple of days. The weekend though is going to be a challenge as we are going out both days.

Tomorrow I will meet my first blogger - ChrisH from Diet Coke Rocks and her hubby Saint Stew and the wee ones Brylee and Griffin from NZ. I'm really looking forward to meeting them and showing them what a beautiful city Sydney is. Hopefully I can post some pictures of our day out.

Sunday is a family get together with the out(in)laws which I'm am relishing - NOT! Hubby's side are not a close family and it's been several years since we last saw them. One of his sisters has terminal brain cancer and has been given 3 mths to live,so this is basically the reason for the get together, so I hope she is well enough to attend and has a good time.

I don't know anyone that hasn't been affected by cancer these days. It is so prevalent I'm sure it has a lot to do with the chemical/pollutive society we live in. It must be dreadful to be told you only have a certain amount of time to live with no hope. I often think how would I cope with this if it was me but I don't think anyone would know until it happened. When I get down on myself I think what it would be like being in my sister-in-laws shoes and my problems seem insignificant.

As we say here is Oz - "AVAGOODWEEKEND!"

"F" DOESN'T STAND FOR FUN

Well, I have done it again. After working so hard and using the "tough love" approach to weight loss, I have undone all the hard work and had a gain this week of 1.4kg (3lbs)bringing me over the 120kg mark AGAIN!

I decided I was going to have a diet free Mother's Day and eat what I felt like, with all intentions of eating moderately. I ate moderately alright, for myself and half of the third world.

It has confirmed to me what I already knew, I just can't trust myself with the evil substance. The everything in moderation just doesn't work for me, once I get the taste I'm a goner. Total abstinence is the only way for me. I am now vowing myself to food chastity!

The exercise is also a no goer at the moment because my hip and butt are still giving me trouble. BUT no excuses,I take full responsibility for my actions and have learnt from the experience. AMEN!

FAVOURITE MUSIC - 2ND ATTEMPT

Cactus has tagged me to list 7 of my all time favourite albums and 6 favourite songs and give an explanation as to why I have chosen them. So here goes, (and they are in no particular order)

ALBUMS

1. Rumors - Fleetwood Mac

2. Breakfast in America - Supertramp

3. Against the Wind - Bob Seger

All of these albums remind me of going up the coast every weekend in summer with my group of friends. We would all pile into two cars, have the stereos blaring and sing all the way. The photo was taken by a friend in the other car as we were driving in tandem on the freeway. The girl in the picture is someone I've known since kindergarten. That's my big boof head in the back trying to get into the picture. We all saw Fleetmac in concert together when they toured here - it was a great concert.


4. Tapestry - Carole King. Arguably the best female singer songwriter of our time.So many great songs on this album. My cousin who is 4 years older than me introduced me to this album.Our mothers are sisters and we were more like sisters ourselves than cousins.We went everywhere together. The photo was taken on a holiday to Bali, I remember it was our last night, so we went out for Dinner, the next day on the plane to Singapore we both had a bad case of "Bali Belly".

5.Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf, the ultimate driving album only trouble it makes me drive "like a bat out of hell"! It has everything, good ole rock & roll as well as haunting ballads. I love it and still have a copy in my car which I play regularly.




6.Dirty Deeds - AC/DC. This album was given to my older brother for Xmas and I was hooked from the first time he played it. It has the great and late Bon Scott as lead singer. I much prefer him and didn't really follow them much after he died. Boo Hoo! I used to "borrow" it all the time, much to to his disgust. The photo is of us three before going to Sunday School. I was three and my brothers were 7 & 8. Being the only girl I was the odd one out, but soon learnt to stick up for myself.

7. Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs. this is one of those albums where every song is great, it's a shame he never followed it up with anything else as good.

SONGS


1.Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits and 2. My Sharona - The Knack. My best buddy and I used to love dancing to these tracks. The photo was taken at a friends party and was once of those chance photos as we didn't know the guy was standing behind us(or who he was for that matter) we danced to these two songs again and again,I remember we had a huge night with probably a sore head the next day.

3.Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John. I remember listening to this out camping in the middle of nowhere, watching falling stars while this played on my walkman. It is a masterpiece and I never tire listening to it.

4.You Should be Dancing - Bee Gees always gets my feet tapping


5. Cocaine - J J Cale A very sexy and sensual song.A bunch of my nursing buddies would go to the local pub every Tuesday and this would always end up being played on the jukebox.A rather slightly tipsy student nurse decided to jump on the bar and do a "little dance" to this number much to the delight of her companions. OK, I was fully tipsy.That's me top row extreme left standing next to my Kiwi buddy.

6.Hotel California - The Eagles. Reminds me being a young and innocent 14 year old, dreaming of my first boyfriend. Whenever I hear this song I can see myself sitting on my bedroom floor on a sheepskin rug I had, listening to it on my stereo over and over again.

7. Sit on My Face - Monty Python. This always brings a smile to me face.It's one of the songs I want played at my funeral during the "reflection time".Now that would be something worth seeing.

F#@!

I have just spent the last two hours on my fav album and song post, uploading pic etc to have it lost through fat finger syndrome. I am so pissed off. It's 11.30 pm here so I'm off to bed and will have to re-do it tomorrow night. Until then.

Oh and our boy (the horse) came 6 out of 10. Not a bad effort as he was up 2 classes, came out of barrier 10 and was his first up from a spell.